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Jacob Philipp Hackert

Group of People on a Terrace

1797
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with graphite and traces of white gouache, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
55.4 × 44 cm (21.8 × 17.3 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

The German Romantic artist Jacob Philipp Hackert was fascinated by Italy, and he became court painter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples. He specialized in landscape painting, particularly scenes of Classical ruins.

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